Entry Word: ¹pry

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever <it took some effort to pry up the trap door>

Synonyms jimmy, lever, prize

Related Words elevate, hoist, lift, uplift; break, break up, detach, disengage, disjoin, divide, part, pull, separate; shift

Near Antonyms connect, join

2 to draw out by force or with effort <prying the toys from the clutches of my sleeping brother> — see extract